A 19th century eight-day three-piece mantel clock garniture:...

Hammer

£190

A 19th century eight-day three-piece mantel clock garniture: the gilt-bronze-cased clock in reformed Gothic style with a central finial (bent) and pierced vertical tracery gallery above a painted porcelain dial with a castle by water scene and Roman numerals to the chapter ring; the lower porcelain section gilt-framed and decorated with soldiers in 17th century dress atop battlements looking over a town, the two decorated porcelain side panels with similar scenes of guards at castle doors; the movement striking on a bell and signed 'Japy Fréres'; the clock raised on four spreading square feet; the similar period, but unassociated, gilt-metal and porcelain garnitures of urn-form and having pineapple finials, mythical beast masks and ring handles, raised on elaborate cast bases (one garniture minus front left-hand foot) (the clock 33cm high) (3)